(n.) A light, humorous piece of writing, esp. in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad.
(n.) A piece of sport; a trick; a prank.
(n.) A trolling bait, consisting of a bright spoon and a hook attached.
(n.) A small machine or handy tool
(n.) A contrivance fastened to or inclosing a piece of work, and having hard steel surfaces to guide a tool, as a drill, or to form a shield or templet to work to, as in filing.
(n.) An apparatus or a machine for jigging ore.
(v. t.) To sing to the tune of a jig.
(v. t.) To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.
(v. t.) To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve. See Jigging, n.
(n.) To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.
(v. i.) To dance a jig; to skip about.
Example Sentences:
(1) If Del Bosque really want to win this World Cup thingymebob, then he has got to tell Iker Casillas that the jig is up, correct?
(2) Between members of different teams however, only the finger breadth method attained reliabilities above .7, and the plexiglass jig, in particular, showed very low reliability.
(3) A new jig simulating the abdominal cavity and wall is described.
(4) The stain pattern on the stem was analysed in a 3-point-bending jig and also after cementing it into cadaver femurs.
(5) Dipnets and jigs inflicted minimal trauma and were preferred for squid capture.
(6) Once the jig is in position, the patient is asked to produce left and right lateral movements until muscular relaxation is obtained.
(7) We developed some instruments to resolve these problems; i.e., scopes with a large diameter for high resolution, a triangulation instrument for multiple cannulations, a needle set-up jig for disk traction suture, a step cannulation system and a two-channel cannula for operating in the narrow lower joint space and a fixing jig for cannulas in the upper and lower joint space to observe the same portion of the discal tissue from both joint space during disk suturing.
(8) When, in 1996, the Globe theatre in London first experimented with doing it Shakespeare’s way, the scholars and theatre folk encountered the jig problem.
(9) This study used a special jig system, photography, and a sonic digitizer to evaluate the change in canal size and location after retreatment in 20 teeth with small or large curved canals (greater than 23 degrees).
(10) The kinetics of neural uptake and efflux of lidocaine hydrochloride were studies by means of a standardized technique for blocking the intraorbital nerve of the rat, using a palatal jig.
(11) Thermostatic regulation of tissue temperature is provided by on-off control of the average power supplied independently to each heating jig.
(12) It is recommended that the clearance of the hole in the support jig is at least 0.7 mm and that push-out results are only compared with each other when materials with similar Young's modulus are concerned.
(13) The ads have featured a miniature Miliband in Salmond’s jacket pocket and, in one animated film, the Labour leader dancing to a Scottish jig played by Salmond on a recorder.
(14) When a mechanical checkout jig was set up at the same point, a discrepancy of 4 mm resulted when the gantry was moved from 0 degrees to 180 degrees.
(15) The Herbert screw is useful in treating displaced capitellar fractures since the jig maintains the reduction and the screw, compressing the fracture site, is buried beneath the articular cartilage and does not have to be removed.
(16) If you want sustainable supply chains, you have to re-jig how you think.
(17) A two-part German-South African co-production based on the bestselling Kate Mosse novel, it's a window-rattling potboiler bubbling with ancient religious conspiracies, comely medieval wenches, comely 21st-century academics, fogbanks of swirly past-times skulduggery, evil pharmaceutical CEOs in 10 denier tights, priapic chevaliers and, verily, a script that does dance a merry jig upon the very phizog of credibility.
(18) A central distractor, attached to the jig, positions and aligns the knee at 0 degrees or 90 degrees.
(19) A pilot drill with a built-in stop to prevent overpenetration is used first and then the screw can be inserted with jig, or it may be inserted manually if the osteotomy is stablized temporarily with a Kirschner wire.
(20) Single-limb-stance loads and combined axial and torsional loads were applied to the implanted femoral prostheses with the use of a jig that simulated acetabular and trochanteric loading.
Pig
Definition:
(n.) A piggin.
(n.) The young of swine, male or female; also, any swine; a hog.
(n.) Any wild species of the genus Sus and related genera.
(n.) An oblong mass of cast iron, lead, or other metal. See Mine pig, under Mine.
(n.) One who is hoggish; a greedy person.
(v. t. & i.) To bring forth (pigs); to bring forth in the manner of pigs; to farrow.
(v. t. & i.) To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed.
Example Sentences:
(1) The combined immediate and delayed responses to fleas in the dog are as observed by other investigators in man and guinea pigs.
(2) The ability of azelastine to influence antigen-induced contractile responses (Schultz-Dale phenomenon) in isolated tracheal segments of the guinea-pig was investigated and compared with selected antiallergic drugs and inhibitors of arachidonic acid metabolism.
(3) The use of organophosphorus preparations in the treatment of ectoparasites and endoparasites of pigs is discussed.
(4) Using mini-pigs with an indwelling vascular catheter, the pharmacokinetics of chloramphenicol were investigated in healthy and liver-damaged animals.
(5) Concentrations of several gastrointestinal hormonal peptides were measured in lymph from the cisterna chyli and in arterial plasma; in healthy, conscious pigs during ingestion of a meal.
(6) These experiments indicated that there were significant differences between the early classical C system of mice and those of human and guinea pig.
(7) The role of O2 free radicals in the reduction of sarcolemmal Na+-K+-ATPase, which occurs during reperfusion of ischemic heart, was examined in isolated guinea pig heart using exogenous scavengers of O2 radicals and an inhibitor of xanthine oxidase.
(8) An argon laser beam was used to irradiate the round window in 17 guinea pigs.
(9) The sequential histopathologic alterations in femorotibial joints of partial meniscectomized male and female guinea pigs were evaluated at 1, 2, 3, 6, and 12 weeks post-surgery.
(10) The dog and the pig also have an endoperoxide-sensitive constrictor system activated by the 11,9-(epoxymethano) analogue of PGH2 and, of particular note, ICI 79939 and its 11-oxo analogue.
(11) The examination of the standard waves' amplitude and latency of the brain stem auditory evoked response (BAEP) was performed in 20 guinea pigs (males and females, weighing 250 to 300 g).
(12) We conclude that both exogenously applied PAF by inhalation and antigen exposure are capable of inducing LAR in sensitized guinea pigs, and thus the priming effect of immunization and PAF may contribute to the development of LAR observed in asthma.
(13) In guinea pig ventricular myocytes, the positive contractile staircase was associated with ascending staircases of both peak systolic and end diastolic [Ca2+]i because of a cumulative increase in diastolic [Ca2+]i.
(14) Male guinea pigs received either a single dose of As2O3 10 mg.kg-1 s.c. or repeated doses of 2.5 mg.kg-1 bis in die (b.i.d.)
(15) Ernst Reissner studied the formation of the inner ear initially using the embryos of fowls, then the embryos of mammals, mainly cows and pigs, and to a less extent the embryos of man.
(16) of about 330 000 for the elementary peptide chains of pig and sheep thyroglobulin.
(17) It is probably that tolazoline also releases acetylcholine from the guinea pig atria.
(18) Cell recovery data for the hamster, rat, guinea pig, and rabbit were related to body size with the hamster having the lowest count and the rabbit the highest count.
(19) Clonidine has previously been shown to potentiate HIB in guinea pigs.
(20) Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) against the soluble form (S-COMT) of catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT, EC 2.1.1.6) were produced using a purified preparation of the enzyme from pig liver as antigen.